Heehs, Hitler, & Human Unity

M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (Pathfinders) This idea of the cult of humanity emanated from the Positivist notion of the religion of humanity formulated by Auguste Comte, which had a great reception in Calcutta particularly from the 1880s onwards. (Positivism in Bengal: A case study in the transmission and assimilation of an ideology Geraldine Hancock Forbes, Positivism in Bengal: A Case Study in the Transmission and Assimilation of an Ideology, p.70)  Kris Manjapra, M. N. Roy, 2010, p. 22 

Photo Exhibition " The Mother in Japan " Tibetan Pavilion ::: 8:00 AM

12 - 28 February Photo Exhibition "The Mother in Japan" at the 1st floor hall in Tibetan Pavilion. There will be an special exhibition of the Mother's articles from Japan by a kind permission of Srismirti, Sri Aurobindo Ashram. posted by jyoti_utilite Two Exhibition Inaugurations ::: Tibetan Pavilion ::: Fri ::: 5:00 PM

A World Of Mind Opens Up New Powers of Sensation and Action 10 Feb 2010 by sriaurobindostudies  

The world of mind clearly frees itself from the limitations of material substance and thus opens up these and potentially many more options for freer action of mind in its own native capacities. reference: Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine ...

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 Religious Fundamentalism and Integral Yoga

Introduction Overview Disinformation Alert Fundamentalism Issues Reviews Annotated Documents Letters Further Documents Open Letter by Julian Lines Alok Pandey Replies to Julian (with Analysis) Unsolicited email from an Indian reader Letters to Peter Heehs by Alok Pandey Email from Ananda Reddy

Ananda Reddy to Pavitra The battle that is being fought is not only against one man but a whole dangerous psychoanalytic approach to Sri Aurobindo, especially in the USA.

The battle has to bring about changes not only by demolishing the old but by installing in the Ashram itself such strong and foolproof measures which will not allow such asuric forces to raise their heads once again. The first shots of this battle were heard in 1986-87 when Pranabda and Jugalda had raised their voices against such tendencies in the works coming out of Archives. But not much attention was given to their intuitions. Now the proportions of the mischief have taken a terrifying form and it has to be countered by an inner force of faith and conviction fountaing [sic] out of the devotees and the alumni of SAICE. If we can’t push back the evil now it may be too late. Peter is only a tool in the hands of the anti-Sri Aurobindo forces and maybe he himself is not aware of it just as Hitler was in the constant sway of the Asura but he did not know about it until the end.

The damage wrought by the book by Peter is surely temporary and Their work will be accomplished even if there are a hundred thousand Peters on earth. But the effect of the book would be to delay further Their work just as Hitler's victory would have delayed Their work by few thousand years. The book would provide fodder to the modern tendencies of denigrating spiritual personalities and create mischief in wide circles. That is my fear and that is why I have signed my name in the Army of Light of the Mother. Love, Ananda Reddy dated September 18, 2008. [Sri Aurobindo and world events Sraddhalu Ranade]

Sraddhalu Ranade to the SAICE forum Letter from Aurofilio Schiavina Vijay Poddar to the Ashram Trustees Narad to the Ashram Trustees Pranab's Proposal

The Court Cases Standpoints Bio Data Integral Yoga Sri Aurobindo The Mother

Conference: Fundamentalism and the Future September 11–12, 2009 California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, CA NEW: Listen to Audio Recordings of the Conference RECENT ADDITIONS

10 February 10: Unsolicited email from an Indian reader 8 February 10: More Lies 30 January 10: Questioning Deshpande 23 January 10: Disinformation Alert 

16 January 10: New signed review at Amazon (D. Hutchinson) 14 January 10: New signed review at Amazon (A. Timmermans) 13 January 10: Letter from Aurofilio Schiavina 2 January 10: New signed review at Amazon (A. Delregato)

Rich Carlson calls the “Court Diary” a “Slanderous Document” 6 Feb 2010 by RYD
I don't know if we should take those who celebrate The Lives of Sri Aurobindo and defend its author with any seriousness at all. I'm yet to see, even after year and a half of publication of the book by the prestigious Columbia ...

The book has never been “banned”. Pranksters should be thanked for ... 7 Feb 2010 
“Works of Sri Aurobindo are quoted with the kind permission of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. My thanks to Manoj Das Gupta, Managing Trust ee and head of the Ashram's Publication Department, for granting this per mission. ...

Current officers of the Sri Aurobindo Association, Aurora Mirabilis: AUM 2010: Manifesting the Spiritual Destiny of ...
Lynda Lester edited the Integral Yoga journal Collaboration for 11 years, helped organize the 1988 and 2008 All USA Meeting (AUM), and is a member of the AUM Continuity Committee. She is a returning member of the Sri Aurobindo ...

Aurora Mirabilis Religious Fundamentalism and Integral Yoga
Religious Fundamentalism and Integral Yoga· AUM 2010 Manifesting the Spiritual Destiny of Ame · University of Human Unity Self Learning Center ...

from ASPIRATION - Aspiration is a call to the Divine. — The Mother

kalpana commented on James Tse's blog post 'Emptiness'

''Nothing can arise from Nothing. Asat, nothingness, is a creation of our mind; where it cannot see or conceive, where its object is something beyond its grasp, too much beyond to give even the sense of a vague intangibility, then it cries out, "Her… from ASPIRATION -  kalpana commented on Barindranath Chaki's blog post 'Pranab-da'

Wonderful! I am looking forward to seeing it soon...

from 'God Forever Geometrizes' : In a recent discussion about asura, ‘evil persona’, and ‘the shadow’ on RY Despande’s Mirror of Tomorrow blog […]

People’s aversions to or belittling of Thea’s resurrection of the reality and importance of sacred geometry, our 9 number system and the tropical zodiac become somewhat of a tragic comedy as I continue to walk through the doors of knowledge she has opened up. . . .  [Continued at http://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2010/02/god-forever-geometrizes.html]

From 'The Inadequacy of Jung's Psychology in the Realization of the Soul' by Robert E. Wilkinson. The conception of a ring around a centre is indispensable....' - continued on Circumsolatious. [http://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2010/02/sri-aurobindos-radical-departure-from.html]

Jitendra Sharma - Twitter - aurofrance: Welcome to Sri Aurobindo Ashram: http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/

India - Auroville - 2010: Deepam School By Peter Choate 
She is an occupational therapist from Germany who has been in Auroville for about 18 years. She, along with Silva, runs a school for children who are handicapped. The emotional energy from Angelika is warm, trusting and caring for the ...

Musepaper: listen to Nadaka & Gopika

Hassan est venu pour la première fois à Auroville il y a 25 ans. Après avoir passé quelques mois àAuroville, il rentre en France pour faire une formation en pépinière et arboriculture avec l'idée en tête de revenir s'installer à ...

Society  Litter Free Auroville's Trashion Show
The designers, who came from Auroville and all around India , transformed a wide range of recycled materials including vinyl records, cassette tapes, ...

Upholding a Tradition of Tolerance By AKASH KAPUR Published: February 11, 2010 New York Times
I live in a part of India that has absorbed a disproportionate number of Western immigrants over the last few decades. Pondicherry is a former French colony, a seaside town that draws expatriates to its clean streets and parks, easy pace of life and cheap beer. Auroville, at the edge of Pondicherry, is an international city with over 2,000 residents, more than half of whom are non-Indian.

I grew up around here, surrounded by farmers and fishermen whose worldviews are very different from those of the Americans and Germans and French who have trickled in since the 1960s. Life in the villages was — and, to a significant degree, still is — governed by rigid social rules and traditional norms that determine how people act, eat, marry and dress.

Ever since I was a boy, I have seen European women in tank tops and shorts drive motorcycles through villages where women wouldn’t even dream of wearing pants.

Down at the beach, semi-naked tourists sunbathe while fishermen oil their motorboats and women in saris sort through the day’s catch.

The juxtaposition of cultures has often been incongruous, even tense, but I can’t recall more than a handful of instances where it has broken out into overt hostility or cultural jingoism. I certainly don’t know of a time when a government official has proposed a law regulating how foreigners dressed.

... Indian tolerance has deep roots. The Vedas, a body of texts believed to be around 3,000 years old, proclaim that “truth is one; the wise call it by many names.” The Rig Veda, considered the oldest, similarly teaches that “good thoughts come to us from all sides.”

Leela, a better term than Maya ! at Transcendental Wisdom Blog ...
Aurobindo was a Realist. He asseverated that Maya is Real. "Maya is real, because it is the Self's experience of the Self”. He averred that Leela, meaning the cosmic play of the Divine, is a better term than Maya. ...
Comment posted by: auroman Re: Why the pink-footed goose is a CO2 villain by David Adam

Has anyone done a study of the Ashram's contribution to global warming?  Has anyone measured, invasively or otherwise, the emissions of Ashram inmates ?  I ask because, instead of this Heehs book issue, we could use global warming as a springboard to destabilize the administration by demonstrating the ineptitude of the Trustees in handling environmental concerns.  Once we gain control of the Ashram, we could then build a grand new temple for daily prayers and announce a new religion.

Sri Aurobindo school in marredpally, secunderabad - Nurseries and ...

Sri Aurobindo school in marredpally, secunderabad. Can anyone give me a feedback on the Montessori teaching standards at Sri Aurobindo school in Marredpally ...

Vedic Civilization: In Harmonys Way

As an admirer of Sri Aurobindo, I cannot but admire the appreciation of essences and rythms that this article captures. The real miracle is that the Secret ... Chappell rejects Pakistans coaching offer

It is essential to understand the true meaning of the Vedas, as it was done by Sri aurobindo. The author can give a proper reply to the ignorant comments of ...

Rahul Writes - A Thoughtful Life

Sri Aurobindo. “The idea that man is like unto an inverted tree seems to have been current in by gone ages. The link with Vedic conceptions is provided by ...

Business Today - India's leading business magazine Guest Column: Ron Dayan August 29, 2007

Prabhat Poddar, geo-biologist and architect based in Pondicherry, says there is an invisible energy that flows through the universe—through our body, the food we eat, our home, workplace and the air that surrounds us. It is known as prana in India, chi in China and ki in Japan.

There seems to be an invisible equation that operates between the elements outside, the elements within the individual and his living and working space, and any imbalance in the interplay of these forces can result in chaos. While the first two are near constants, the third is a variable.

So how healthy is your home? Poddar says our well-being is related to the direction we face, the materials used, colour, decorative plants, flowers and objects that we use inside and outside our homes, our reaction to situations, stress, the food we eat, the gems, jewellery and clothes we wear. He quotes Sri Aurobindo in The Foundations of Indian Culture: “True happiness in this world is the right terrestrial aim of man, and true happiness lies in the finding and maintenance of a natural harmony of spirit, mind and body. A culture is to be valued to the extent to which it has discovered the key to this harmony and organised its expressive motives and moments.”

DOWNLOAD PITANGA GRATIS | PITANGA

Pitanga is about physical and cultural activities in the light of the yoga of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Since 1991, its doors are open for Aurovilians and ...

In Harmony's Way - Vedic Gnosis of connecting the Individual to ...

Sri Aurobindo wrote much about this journey-sacrifice (adhvara yajña) towards divine consciousness in The Secret of the Veda. ...

A leading theologian on Medjugorje - The Deacon's Bench 7 Feb 2010
A few shall see what none yet understands; God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep; For man shall not know the coming till its hour. And belief shall be not till the work is done. Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, p. 55 ...

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